Michael Collins’s Omega Speedmaster, Apollo 11

NASA issued this Speedmaster to Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins, who remained in lunar orbit aboard Columbia while Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface. NASA transferred the watch to the National Air and Space Museum in 1990. The object is individually identifiable rather than merely an example of its model, which is important for Arcarel’s object-level record. The cited Smithsonian Institution source supplies the key provenance, event or institutional facts used here. No unnamed buyer or owner has been inferred, and fields not established by the source are left blank. Its significance comes from the combination of the physical watch and the documented people, events, institutions or market history attached to this specific specimen.

Culture

Swiss

Medium

stainless steel|Hesalite|brass

Dimensions

3.8 × 3.8 × 1.3 cm

Origin

Switzerland